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We send the kids to school all dressed up as their favorite CARTOON character on Monday morning. We are thinking this is great, we pulled it off. We threw a last minute thing together and it turned out "all right".

I pick the kids up from school on Monday and they tell me that it wasn't cartoon character day but HISTORICAL character day. HAHAHAHA. We sent the kids to school in cartoon costumes and they were supposed to be dressed up as some famous historical figure. Their teachers must have been thinking...Hmmm okay?

So they improvised. Avery took off her bow ties on her shoes and said she was Laura Ingalls and Dalton said he was Albert Einstein.

We did have a talk with Dalton about listening better in school to what his teachers say, since he was the one who informed us that they were supposed to go to school as their favorite cartoon character!

Make Momma Proud

The town we live in had it's annual city garage sale. So the girls and I went out around our neighborhood with wagon and bikes in tow on Saturday morning to see what treasures we might find. The very first place we stopped at I found this set of coffee pot, tea kettle and something else. I still have no idea what it's use is? I have been looking for trinket type things to put up above the cupboards in my kitchen and thought these would look great. I was only going to buy one of them but then decided to get all three. It was a bargain, I paid a whopping $6 for all three. When I got them home and started putting them up I noticed something in the bottom of the tea kettle. I pulled it out and it was a price tag form an antique store. It listed the item and Id# then the price. It was $49.50! And that was just for one piece of the set. It makes me wonder what the whole set is worth!!!

Any of you who know my mom, knows that she loves antiques and is an avid antiquer. So not only did I get a cute set of things for my cupboards but I also got a steal of a deal, and it was my first purchase of an antique and I think I did my momma proud.

Spirit Week

This week is spirit week at school for Dalton and Avery. Today was the first day, and they had to go to school dressed up like their favorite cartoon character. Since we remembered the project at 6:30 last night we threw together something before bedtime last night that would make due. Not necessarily their favorite characters but it was what we had available! They are the brother and sister duo of Dexter and Dee-dee from the cartoon Dexter's Labratory.

Dalton is wearing a lab-coat(Matt's huge white shirt) And has on black pants that are also Matt's! They are all safety pinned so they would be short enough and small enough around the waist...lol. He is wearing my "fashion glasses". Avery has ribbons around her legs like Dee-dee wears but Avery's are being held up by band-aids.

Turned out pretty cute for a quick throw together job!

Quote

"Holding a grudge is like drinking poison then watching and waiting for the other person to die"

Pink

I have been working with Rachel on her colors for the past week or so. Pointing out colors of things, going through books that are about colors, asking her what color things are etc.... PINK! That is her answer for every color. Doesn't matter if I just went over a color with her saying, "this is green". I will turn the page (pointing to something green) and ask, "What color is this Rachel?" "Pink!" It's pretty funny. I guess pink is the only color that matters or exists to her at this point.